Speed 3 production #s ?

[justa4banger]

FYI the vin numbers have no DIRECT relation to production number. it will help you find the production number, but they do not serialize cars in that fashion.
Hell my SVO is 1 of 9900 aproximately made over a 3 year span.
My car was #4200 or something and only 286 for 1985 were built exactly like it. Vin doesn't reflect any of those numbers.

 

[jhowey]

It was more like 99 1/2 to 05 1/2 on the Jetta, but VW is not known for its reliability

 

[Antonio DiMarco]

Yeah but that's Ford and VW

LOL bugs squashed yea right. Lokk at the MKIV vw platform 2000-2004 GTI/Jetta. 4 years to make it right and they still have issues.
Some people get lucky and other don;t have any luck. Then there are the few that cry and whine about everything, because they have nothing better to do with their time............

What do you expect from Ford and VW?

 

[justa4banger]

Cause you know NO other Manufacturer has issues

 

[ReFlex]

Again....Hmmmm

I personally test drove 0099 and 1445.

Guys just finish getting off the phone with Mazda and good news, The vin number does reveal the production number...Take the last 4 digits and it goes in order by the third to last number first and back around...Examples, 0099=0990, 1445=4451

 

[ReFlex]

The last 4 numbers can't tell you too much...because the last 4 of my VIN is 8271. Maybe it includes all M3 models...

BTW...The US gets 5000 MS3 this year...not N. America as a whole.

8271=2718 which is your production number

 

[Rotus8]

8271=2718 which is your production number

My VIN ends in 4727 so you are saying my production number is 7274? That's more than 5000. Hmmm.

 

[Barney]

Not many out there know what Mazdaspeed means. But, I drive for Yellow Freight and one of the old timers there, (60 year old Harley fanatic and old gearhead) found out I had one. He said he had been reading about the new
MS3 and he asked lots of questions about it. Maybe he'll let me ride his new
$25,000 Harley if I let him drive mine.

 

[maczter]

3840 here. that would mean it's #8403.

not buyin' it.

 

[speedalot]

if thats the case then s***, i got 0859. awesome.

 

[speedalot]

yeah, what that dealership told you is wrong. look up 'reading vin numbers' on google. itll give you a break down of what all those numbers and letters mean.from what ive been reading, the last 6 numbers is the production number. that would make mine, 679085. so i assume this is for ALL mazda 3's built but im still not exactly sure yet.

 

[benzo]

Last 4 digits are 0839=production # of 8390. Confused?

 

[knowledge007]

um no...there are only 5000 sent to NA so no please get this crap out of your heads...the last four digits of your vin IS NOT YOUR PRODUCTION NUMBER!!!

 

[AntimonyER]

Don't forget however that there were not only 5,000 made, only 5,000 sent to NA... actually 12,000 made, so couldn't technically a number over 8000 still be an actual production number? Just a thought.

 

[maczter]

Don't forget however that there were not only 5,000 made, only 5,000 sent to NA... actually 12,000 made, so couldn't technically a number over 8000 still be an actual production number? Just a thought.

Sure. But if that were the case, we'd need another digit to account for prod. #'s 10,000-12,000.

 

[speed3shon]

im not sure i understand why knowing what your production number is is such a big deal?

 

[speedalot]

its not such a big deal to me. i would just like to know what number i got for s**** and giggles.

 

[camrycev6]

5000 were sent to the US, not NA.

 

[mcb]

5000 were sent to the US, not NA.

500 should be sent to Canada by the end of the year. so its 5500 to NA.

so if we suppose the last 4 digit is the production # i have the 6500, wich is kinda odd since i got 1 from the first shippment.

 

[eddienyny]

Try running your VIN through a VIN Decoder.

http://www.pronto-net.com/vin_app/vin.php

Unfortunately it doesn't answer the question re: your specific ms3 production #, but is still interesting to decode.

Also, if you've ever visited an assembly plant, you'll notice that they don't always build the same model trim in sequence one right after the other. They do this to maximize overall production numbers without having to shut the plant down for a specific trim.

A plant could easily produce 10k+ MS3 vehicles in a month, but since we're seeing build dates spanning the last 6 months (mine is 03/07), its safe to assume that MS3 vehicles were likely assembled along with base mazda3 vehicles... hence non-sequential MS3 identification numbers (last 6 digits).